US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Deceleration assistance device, vehicle, deceleration assistance method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,649, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Deceleration assistance device, vehicle, deceleration assistance method, and program" was invented by Shogo Ito (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Yuta Ikezawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deceleration assistance device including: a target information acquisition unit for acquiring information of a target located in front of a vehicle; a position estimation unit for estimating an estimated position of a deceleration object; a position recognition unit for recognizing a position of the deceleration object; and a control unit for executing, based on...